Pitchforks it is, then.

It's clearly because of women who dress immodestly. The boobquake has finally arrived.

What is this, Facebook forwards from babushka?

Beehaw has already chosen not to be a part of the fediverse. There's no real purpose in asking us; only you can resolve Beehaw's identity crisis.

Aye

Some of the folks at hexbear seem legitimately cool, but a large portion of those who engage with popular posts are deliberately antagonistic, narcissistic, and exhausting.

I get that they're a large, established instance, but it's literally just where CTH went to die and ferment. The resulting sludge of stupid image shitposting and autocratic proselytizing taints the entire platform

Decent visibility, but weak to the wololo

Not explosions. "Special Civil Engineering Operations".

I'm in this picture and I like it

Oh my god, we're the arch linux users of social media...

According to the pinned post, votes go up on Friday and stay up until the following Friday. The same post also indicates these procedures are by no means final.

I agree that it's clear what the community wants, just call it at this point. A week long vote might be suited to policy changes, but I'm starting to get the feeling that defederation of specific instances should be done quickly - informed by existing policy rather than popular vote. None of us really want to fuck around with bigots and trolls any longer than we have to.

In this case, I would personally advocate for something like this line of reasoning: "the users on this instance have a clear pattern of violating our instance's first two rules and the administration isn't acting to remedy it, therefore we defederate effective immediately".

I do want to echo what @sorrybookbroke is saying, please give the admin team some credit, they are putting in a serious amount of manual mod work. It's apparent to all of us that the policies still have a ways to go, but it takes time to build a community.

It's just down to Lemmy not having good enough mod tools yet. Beehaw is a carefully curated walled garden instance that hosts some high quality communities; they are availing themselves of the only real tool they have to curb an influx of bad actors from other instances.

Here's hoping its temporary. The admin team here at sh.itjust.works clearly operates in good faith.